ADDED: When protopunk sets up in front of the fireplace in your sedate living room, please be careful. Don't drop your tambourine!

Well, all I want is to just be free, live my life the way I wanna be. All I want is to just have fun, live my life like it's just begun... And maybe you can, but however you live your life — pushin' hard or soft, like it's just begun or like a mature hippie — it will one day be over. The tambourine must, in the end, hit the carpet.

AND: What sitcom is that in the clip? I recognized the actress Kaye Ballard, and using IMDB, deduced that it must be "The Mothers-In-Law." The episode — directed by Desi Arnaz! — was called "How Not to Manage a Rock Group":

While I cannot truthfully say I've seen the entire episode, the 10 minute portion that I have seen is very funny and, of course, has the incredible 1960s band The Seeds in it. They portray The Warts, a band that the kids want to manage. The Seeds' great "Pushin' Too Hard" is performed, and is simply incredible. Singer Sky Saxon is a terrific frontman. The adults try to steer the group into a more traditional sound, offering some silly novelty tunes, and creating some big laughs. It all ends with the adults doing "Some Enchanted Evening," oom Pa Pa style. Extremely corny and very amusing, with the rockers joining in. It must have actually influenced their music, because on the band's underrated 1967 LP "Future," they actually use a tuba in a couple of songs.

I can see the inspriration for the later Ramones in that--who then went on to inspire the Pistols and the Clash. I always like that song, but what TV show did that scene get recorded from?

I read this article last night about MJ. Rather sad. Too bad MJ could not have either faded away from the white spotlight of media fame to go quitely down to Austin and jam on the weekends. Then again, MJ never wanted that did he? He wanted to come back and be the king. As Richard Fernandez noted (in a completely different but well written post recently), it is tough to ride the tiger*.

Every time I see an old 60s show that has a "Rock" band paying a song,I feel embarrassed. Some of the pop stuff from then was simply bad. I don't understand why it was thought to be cool and edgy - it seems silly now and poor quality.

Like always, the intent was to be anti-establishment. That's fine, but it has to have some quality of it's own to put forth. Listen to the lyrics, the music, watch them. It's just not good, IMHO

I think much of today's music that's stuck on narcissism, sex and degradation will eventually have the same silly look in hindsight.

If it has quality, like the Beatles even at their sugary sweetest, it will hold up.

The classic rock stuff is still great music, but the visual performances were weak compared to todays standards. They were basically musicians first. Today's visual standards are much high

... It's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. Now you may get the 8 pack, you may get the 16 pack but it's all in what you do with the crayons - the colors - that you're given. Don't worry about coloring within the lines or coloring outside the lines - I say color outside the lines, you know what I mean? Color all over the page; don't box me in! We're in motion to the ocean. We are not land locked, I'll tell you that.

bagoh20,the intent wasn't to be anti-establishment. 'The Mothers-In-Law' was about the worst conceivable venue for that, as it was the 'Golden Girls' of its era.

The intent was to sell records. It's no different from the pushing of bands on current shows like Smallville that are expecting to be watched by the demographic most interested new, annoying stuff their parents and older siblings won't like.